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ASH GHUTE FOR STOVBS.

No. 370,142. Patented Sept. 20, 1887.

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No. 370,142. Patented Sept. 20, 1887:

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HENRY WV. HOLCOMB, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DELMER II. DUNTON AND EUGENE DUNTON, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

ASH-CHUTE FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,142, dated September 20, 1887.

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To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY W. HOLCOMB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Chutes for Stoves;

and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to I n which it appertains to make and use the same,

referen ee beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

[5 My invention in stoves relates especially to the construction of the base or bottom, which is provided with a discharge for the ashes and refuse; also, in thelconstruction of parts, pro viding a cheap and convenient means for dumping or discharging the refuse into the receptacle located below the stove, thereby dispensing with the ash-pans commonly used for removing the ashes through the side of the stove.

By my present device I am able to readily and rapidly discharge the refuse from the stove, avoiding any dust or inconvenience in disposing of it; and my invention consists in the arrangement or organization of parts, as hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out particularly in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective of an ordinary coal-stove containing my invention, the base of the stove being broken away, showing the improved features in section. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the base of the stove, with connecting parts in section. Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged details.

S in the drawings represents the stove; A, the chamber for ashes; B, the base or bottom of the ash-chamber, which is funnel-shaped, having sloping sides, with the central discharge or opening, D, terminating with the 5 annular flange F, which projects through an opening in the base-plate K of the stove.

E is the hotair chamber formed between the base-plate and the sloping annular bottom B of the ash-chamber. This form of construction is for what is known as a base-heating stove.

H represents the floor of a dwelling, and M a chamber or cellar below the floor.

P is a pipe which passes through the floor under the stove, havings its upper end coupled to the annular flange F of the conical bottom to the stove. In the upper end of said pipe I rivet or otherwise secure the ring It, having the horizontal annular flange (1. Below said flanged ring I locate the dumpingplate Z, which is made fast at one edge to the rod 1'. Said rod passes through the pipe 1?, in which itturns, and has the crank projection 12 coupled to the horizontal operatingrod t. Said rod passes through the slot or opening 0, formed in 6 the face of the base of the stove, (see Fig. 2,) and is provided at its free end with a handle or knob, a, also the locking-prong a. Said prong engages with the back face of the base of the stove at 5 when the dumping-plate Z is closed up under the lower face of the ring R, as shown in Fig. 1. \Vhen the dumpingplate is in said position, the refuse falling onto and collecting in the ash-chamber is retained.

\Vhen the operator desires to dump or dis charge the refuse from the ash-chamber, the knob a is grasped, and by lifting it the prong a becomes disengaged, when by drawing back on the rod-t the crank n is turned, rocking the dumping-plate Z down, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, when the refuse will pass down the sloping sides of the bottom of the ash-chamber out through the pipe 1? into a suitable vessel below the floor. Then, forcing the rod t back sufficiently to cause the prong a to engage S5 with the base of the stove, the dumping-plate Z will be swung up under the annular flange d of the ring It, closing the discharge, as shown in Fig. 1.

P is an extension-pipe coupled onto the pipe P, and O is a barrel or ash-boX located below it, and N is a cover, which has an open flange on top, in its center,which encircles the bottom portion of the pipe 1?, and having a flange around its periphery which encircles 9 5 the top of the barrel 0; and to remove the box or barrel the cover N is slightly raised on the pipe, as shown by dotted lines of Fig. 1.

In Figs. 1 and 4 I show an annular ring, R, located in the lower end of the pipe P. It is constructed and attached the same as the ring R, and below it I locate a second dumping platform, Z, which is firmly attached at one edge to a rod, 71, passing through the pipe 1? at one side of the center, asshown in Figs. 3 and 4. The free end of the rod t" is provided with a side-hill washer and nut, 12. (See Fig. 3.) The rod, passing through the pipe at 3, is bent at right angles, and is again bent at right angles at 4, thus forming the angular crank it h. To the .outer end of the part It, I couple the vertical rod f, which passes up through the floor H, terminating with a handle or ring at the upperend, and hasa locking-lug, e, which engages with the under edge of the floor or any suitable support, whereby when the rod is depressed, as in Fig. l, closing the dumping-plate Z, said rod will remain locked, holding said dumping-plate in. the position shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

The object of the auxiliary pipe P and its dumping-platform is to prevent the refuse m (when dumping from the ash-pan) from entering the barrel or box 0. Should the barrel be of wood and the refuse containlive coals and be dumped directly from the stove into it,the barrel would be liable to take fire. Therefore the refuse is dumped from the stove by the operating of the rod t, as set forth, the ashes or refuse falling into the metal pipe P, being arrested by the dumping-bottom Z, as shown in Fig. 1, where it remains until the live coals or heat of the refuse has died out or become exhaust-ed, when said refuse may be safely dumped into the barrel 0 by disengaging the v lug e at the upper end of the rod f and lifting it slightly, when the dumping-plate Z will hang in the position of plate Z of Fig. 2.

- When using a metal receiver, C, the dumping-plate Z and operating part may be dispensed with, if desired, without departing from the nature of my invention; and when said dumping-plateis dispensed with the ref- Having set forth my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to cover by Letters Patent,

1. In combination with the stove having the refuse-chamber with the central discharge, the discharge-pipe coupled thereto and extending through the floor of the dwelling, having the ring R located in said dischargepipe, the dumping-plate attached atone edge to the rod 13, journaled'in said pipe below the ring R, and rod t, for operating said dumpingplate, as and for the purposes specified.

2. In combination with the stove, the refuse-chamber having the funnel-shaped bottom with central discharge, and flange F, the discharge-pipecoupled to the flange and having in its upper end the ring R, with horizontal' flange d, the dumping-plate attached at one edge to the rod 11, passing through said pipe and below said flange d, the crank 11, the rod 25, coupled to said crank and having the prong a, said prong adapted to engage with the base of the stove, as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY \V. I-IOLCOMB.

Witnesses:

ROSOOE B. WHEELER, 0. W. RUssELL. 

